For the last day of sprint, I wanted to set up a Javascript unit test
automation,
in order to be able to run all Js unitests like Python tests are through
buildbot.
Scriptaculous unit testing framework provides a way to do it: the tests
results are sent to a url through an Ajax call.
a small python script that launches html unit tests with
mozilla-firefox, then close it
a small python http server that retrieves results sent by the
javascript
Some caveats to correct before its useable in a Zope project:
Right now the results sent by the unit test is just a simple 'SUCESS'
or 'ERROR' string, and I need to change it so I can get the full error log
when they are errors, like the one displayed in the browser, and convert it
to Python assertions.
The ajax call to send results is done from the filesystem html to the
localhost. So a trick is needed to make cross-domain ajax posts. The python
http server could be used to serve the html tests file as well to avoid
this problem, so I would have a complete js test server.
It needs to work on IE as well, maybe through Wine
So to the question "Can I do TDD in JS as smoothly as in Python ?", I'd
answer: "Yes, it's coming up :)"
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